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Max:It should not matter whether that particular line has the @ symbols or not. That line is a continuation of a text comment and Behold should handle it. I put that exact code with the @ symbols into a simple test program and I couldn't get Behold to fail. I tried several earlier versions of Behold as well but ...

Max: I've tried, but I cannot create the problem.Could you give me an example of what one of the NOTE lines looks like that causes the problem?Louis

Actually, redoing it sometimes takes less time. Doing it the first time often has a general goal, but you don't know the problems along the way until you encounter them, and then your path has to keep shifting a bit. This can sometimes take a very long time, e.g. my month and a half foray with my data structure ...

"They seem to be a remarkable mixture of sophisticated and antiquated thinking and programming."That's a great way to say it. They are of course the geniuses behind the invention of GEDCOM, yet they haven't updated it in, what, 10 years?Louis

I don't think I'm going to add any "web scraping" to Behold itself. Behold will get its data from GEDCOM files and soon directly from selected databases of some Genealogy Programs. But, I could consider writing a simple separate program designed to get data from familysearch.org. Maybe I'd call it ...

I bet you didn't realize that the Everything Report is already a basic text editor. Many of the items on the Edit menu work, especially cut, copy and paste. It just can't save your edits yet, but that will come in Version 2.However, you can print just the duplicates by simply selecting and deleting everything ...

To get a solution that works really well will take time. There are a lot of considerations, including ensuring that identical information from two files about one person is only listed once, and different information in the two files are both listed. Then there's the possibility of conflicting information, e.g. ...

I think I know already what you are talking about. I see in the file I downloaded from LDS Familysearch to test the problem, that the INDI records look something like this: 0 @I693K-W4@ INDII believe the Indi ID number is used to uniquely identify individuals in their complete library, and the same person ...

This is excellent! You're doing some testing with multiple GEDCOMs that not too many other people have done. Up to now, I have purposely not changed the case of names. My thinking was that people would primarily be using Behold to find errors and inconsistencies in their own data, so that they could make ...

Well I outsmarted myself there. I completely forgot that I was using my "smart search", which ignored the leading hyphens, placing it alphabetically under "U". I'll definitely fix that!Louis